University of California, San Diego, USA

Overview

History, Affiliations & Rankings

The University of California—San Diego is a public institution that was established in 1960. UCSD is accredited by WASC and all its degree programs are duly accredited by the respective agencies. UC San Diego was ranked 31st in the world by Times Higher Education in the 2020 World University Rankings and was also named as 20th best in the USA. It has also been listed by the U.S. News and World Report rank 19 in the Best Global Universities rankings 2020.

Infrastructure, Campus & Courses

UC San Diego's main campus is situated near the Pacific Ocean on roughly 1,200 acres of coastal woodland in La Jolla, California. UCSD has six undergraduate residential colleges; the college system provides students with the benefits of a small liberal arts college and the resources of a large research university. Apart from six undergraduate colleges, UCSD also has five academic divisions and five graduate and professional schools.

UCSD provides more than 125 bachelor's degree programs categorized into five academic divisions: arts and humanities, biological sciences, engineering, mathematics and physical sciences, and social sciences.  The university is in the top 30 institutions for imparting degrees in Fine Arts, Drama, and theatre, Engineering, Health Sciences, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, etc.
The most sought after courses are Engineering, Computer Science, Biological Sciences, Mathematics, Management, Literature, and more.

Accomplishments & Alumni 

UC San Diego has been categorized as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) in 2017, a title that less than 60 universities in the USA have achieved. UCSD has a significant list of awards including 27 Nobel Prizes, 3 Fields Medals, eight National Medals of Science, eight MacArthur Fellowships, and two Pulitzer Prizes won by its faculty, alumni, and current researchers.

A few of the most popular alumni are Mike Judge, Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Nick Woodman, Angela Davis, Maria Ho, Charlet Chung, Alicia Garza, Judy Ho, Jessica Meir, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Rachel Campos-Duffy.

Student Diversity & Visiting Companies

UCSD represents an exciting classroom for international candidates, around 19.2% of students are international and 36.1% Asian which proves the fact that the university is quite welcoming towards international students. 

UCSD students face no challenge in getting hired, some of the companies coming to the campus are Anklesaria Group, Inc., Deloitte Consulting, ECG Management, Ernst & Young, Gartner., Bumble Bee Seafoods, D+M Group, Panda Restaurant Group, Shutterfly, Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, HP, Hikvision USA, IBM, Kyriba Corp., Qualcomm Technologies, etc.